Written by Brian Michael Bendis
Penciled by Alex Maleev
Cover by Alex Maleev
Published Feb 22, 2017
Cover by Alex Maleev
Published Feb 22, 2017
Ben Grimm wakes up in a recovery room wondering if it was all a dream... unti Maria Hill walks in and reminds him that no - it's wasn't. He's on the SHIELD helicarrier and the last place he remembers being is in Dr Doom's lab. Doom wasn't there but his mom was. She cast a spell on him and then Victor showed up, and saved Ben's life. Back at Doom's castle, his mother asks to see his face. Victor doesn't believe it. Ben tells Maria he'd always heard Doom's mother was a witch and was killed somewhere out in the woods, but there she was. She tells him to scan her, listen to her heartbeat, anything but Victor isn't convinced. She explains to him that she's been in hiding but now, in light of her son doing such good deeds, she's returned. He's turned his path to that of honor. She moves to destroy Grimm but Victor orders him freed. She casts a spell on him and that's all he remembers...
Ben tells Maria they need to get back to Latveria and she tells him they never left. She orders boots on the ground and they arrest the general Doom left in charge who demands an audience with Maria. At Cambridge, SHIELD agents walk into Amara Perara's lab to ask her about Ben Grimm and Doctor Doom's fight outside her apartment. No sooner do they walk in that a school administrator walks in with a notice for her to leave the school. Dismayed, she goes back to work and sees Victor Von Doom walk in. She wonders aloud if she's going to end up murdering him. He tells her he's sorry this all happened. He's recently been reunited with his mother but he'll fix all of Amara's woes.
Flash back to their meeting, and Doom asks his mother why she's shamed him all these years. She says she loves him and he attacks her. She tells him they'll finish this another day and Amara, in the present, asks him if he thought she was really dead. He tells her he saved her soul from eternal damnation once. Amara tells Doom that she can't fix him. She can't even fix herself. The issue concludes with Doom's mother standing over a cauldron. Reed Richards tells her he's proud of her and she thanks him. With that, we're left to be continued.
I don't really understand why Marvel canceled the Fantastic Four if they were just going to essentially bring them all back in the pages of Iron Man of all places. Victor Von Doom is an amazing villain, rich and full of history but I personally never drew parallels between him and Tony Stark. After Secret Wars they couldn't leave him hanging. Maybe they wanted to test the waters and didn't want to waste space in an Avengers book. I don't know. For now though, I DO know I enjoy this story and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes. I give it a 9/10.
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